Before Katie Meyler came to West Point, Liberia, the children living there had little hope for the future. The crowded township, which lies on a peninsula that juts into the Atlantic Ocean at the northern end of Monrovia, Liberia's capital, is the worst slum in the country. Less than two square miles in size, West Point is home to more than 75,000 people crammed into decaying tin shanties without electricity, running water or sanitation.
“It's no place for a child,” says the 32-year-old Meyler, a native of Bernardsville, N.J. “But the kids who live there don't have a choice. West Point is their home.”
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